His wife dying in 1670, and leaving him without male children, he determined, however much he might be afflicted at the loss he had sustained, to marry again, although old.

He carried out his resolution in October of the same year, and was very pleased with the choice he had made.

He liked his new wife so much, in fact, that when Madame de Montespan obtained for her a place at the Court, he declined it at once.

At his age--it was thus he wrote to Madame de Montespan, he had taken a wife not for the Court, but for himself.

My mother, who was absent when the letter announcing the appointment was sent, felt much regret, but never showed it.
Before I finish this account of my father, I will here relate adventures which happened to him, and which I ought to have placed before his second marriage.